Zone-h is looking for new people in order to increase its trainers’ crew operating in Central and Eastern Europe. Here are the main skills required: 

-18-30 years old

- Strong interest and experience in IT security

- Strong interest and experience in Ethical Hacking

- Fluent German

- Good to fluent English

- Capabilities to lead a classroom

- Not employed or self employed with some free days per month (even 3 days per month only)

- Willing to travel in Europe

The candidates should send their personal information, curriculum, skills and experiences, in English language, to : This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

We all know to be good at Christmas, but unfortunately hardly anybody agree with that, especially in the digital world: indeed, a new form of spam is about to invade your email stocking .. and it will have Santa Claus white-whiskered face!

 Sophos labs have just published the alert about a new “seasonal” marketing trick : an email campaign offering to send children a letter from Santa Claus is actually a deceit used by spammers to obtain a number of email addresses they could use for their illicit spam-activities.

Techology can always be surprising, if associated with human fantasy..

This time we talk about MP3 players. Indeed  those cute devices that are commonly used for listening to music have now acquired a new unexpected function: if properly handled they could turn out to be very effective instruments to  carry out profitable (but also illegal) activities!

Anyway this is not a Zone-H discovery: the idea was exploited by a  British  man  who managed in outwitting British banking security system by using a normal MP3 music player to steal customer’s credit card details  by bugging cash machines, the Times-online reported last week .

The responsible has been identified as Maxwell Parsons, 41, a well known criminal figure that not only is involved in a series of robberies all around England, but also did he spend 32 months in prison for deception and unlawful interception of a public telecommunications transmission.

Few months ago Zone-H  dealt with the problems conveyed by new e-passports and the conclusion was that they were not as safe as they were presented to be.

Now, a new research by the magazine The Guardian focuses on the limits standing behind this technology and it highlights the risks that a common person could run: after showing how easy it is to steal precious information starting from a “British Airways frequent-flayer number” printed on a old boarding pass stub, a team of experts working at The Guardian , tested the new ultra-secure electronic passports, and proved that actually they are not that safe.

According to the UK identity and passport Service website  , “the use of biometric information to link a person to a passport can help to counter identify fraud” because they are granted by "an advanced digital encryption technique". Actually, in new passports holder's details and a digital description of their physical features (known as biometrics) are stored in a tiny microchip that is believed to make identity frauds far more difficult. But is it really so?

Privacy has died long time ago, but it is always discomforting to know about new measures by which we can be spied and controlled all the time.

A virus for mobile phones has been recently implemented by the  German data security firm SecurStar Gmbh which claims to have developed a software, even if just as a demonstration, that will allow people to eavesdrop on phone calls and text messages.

 Wilfried Hafner, CEO of SecurStar GmbH, presented  the software, which works as a Trojan Horse and is named RexSpy, during the IT Security  exhibition  "System"   in Munich,  and he focused on its alarming effects. Indeed the virus acts by  exploiting network vulnerabilities to  get  the access to any kind of  mobile phone...

Now,  some changes are occurring in the approach used by websites supporting terrorism: they  are becoming far more modern in design and they are dealing with topics studied to reach a younger and skilled public of potential sympathizers and recruits.